Basic Micro Studio Syntax Manual

Commands
Custom Shapes
Custom characters can be created and used as sprites to form large graphics. The following example
will display a 2 line by 3 character wide heart in the middle of a 2x16 LCD display. Experiments see
what creative characters and sprites you can come up with. The leading 3 zeros have been left off the
binary value due to space constraints. When creating the custom characters you will need to add the
3 leading zeros. See example code.
Bits -> 4 3 2 1 0 Bin 4 3 2 1 0 Bin 4 3 2 1 0 Bin
Byte 0 00000 00000 00000
Byte 1 00011 00000 11000
Byte 2 00111 10001 11100
Byte 3 01111 11011 11110
Byte 4 01111 11111 11110
Byte 5 11111 11111 11111
Byte 6 11111 11111 11111
Byte 7 11111 11111 11111
Bits -> 4 3 2 1 0 Bin 4 3 2 1 0 4 3 2 1 0 Bin
Byte 0 11111 11111 11111
Byte 1 01111 11111 11110
Byte 2 00111 11111 11100
Byte 3 00011 11111 11000
Byte 4 00001 11111 10000
Byte 5 00000 11111 00000
Byte 6 00000 01110 00000
Byte 7 00000 00100 00000
Example
The following program will load all 6 custom characters and display them on a 2x16 LCD display
using the schematics shown for LCDINIT. The program uses the hex values which can be generated
by converting from binary to hex.
lcdinit p0\p1\p2\p3\p4\p5
;create custom heart character
lcdwrite p0\p1\p2\p3\p4\p5,[cgram+0,0x00,0x03,0x07,0x0F,0x0F,0x1F,0x1F,0x1F]
lcdwrite p0\p1\p2\p3\p4\p5,[0x00,0x00,0x11,0x1B,0x1F,0x1F,0x1F,0x1F]
lcdwrite p0\p1\p2\p3\p4\p5,[0x00,0x18,0x1C,0x1E,0x1E,0x1F,0x1F,0x1F]
lcdwrite p0\p1\p2\p3\p4\p5,[0x1F,0x0F,0x07,0x03,0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00]
lcdwrite p0\p1\p2\p3\p4\p5,[0x1F,0x1F,0x1F,0x1F,0x1F,0x1F,0x0E,0x04]
lcdwrite p0\p1\p2\p3\p4\p5,[0x1F,0x1E,0x1C,0x18,0x10,0x00,0x00,0x00,scrram+0]
lcdwrite p0\p1\p2\p3\p4\p5,[TWOLINE,SCR,0,1,2,scrram+0x40,3,4,5]
end
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